LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Edwin Ernest McGILVERY
Service No: 425536
Born: Brisbane QLD, 23 December 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 28 March 1942
Unit: No. 40 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 40 Squadron Wellington aircraft LN513), Italy, 17 February 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Bari War Cemetery, Italy
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Edwin Ernest and Dalina McGilvery, of Bardon, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 0101 hours on 17 February 1944 Wellington LN513 took off from Foggia Main base, Italy, to bomb the shipping at San Stefano. The aircraft which was last plotted 14 miles from base at 0548 hours, height 6, 000 feet, did not return from the mission. It was later established that the aircraft had crashed into a hillside and had burnt out. The aircraft was completely destroyed and all the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of LN513 were:
Sergeant Alfred Bayliss (1239957) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer James Clifton Keighley (134588) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Alan Firth Mason (420575) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Edwin Ernest McGilvery (425536) (Wireless Operator Air)
Sergeant Edward Sydney Sayer (1390342) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/26/379